James Martineau Quotes

God knows why - no pun intended - but every time I write a song, I feel a need to touch on religion.

You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

To me, religion is an agreement between a group of people about what God is. Spirituality is a one-on-one relationship.

Religion is a very personal thing for me. Religion has its good moments and its poor moments.

I hold that religion and faith are two different things.

My religion lies in my composition.

I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.

Religion's in the heart, not in the knees.

From a young kid, I was quite interested in religion.

I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion.

I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me awhile to find the proper context. It's hard to realize you can have any kind of relationship with God you want... and so I now have a punk rock relationship with God.

I have a strong belief in God... I find religion to be a very personal thing... I am also very spiritual.

Religion is such a path with people.

I always pray. I'm quite religious. I've had the beads since I can remember.

For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.

My theory is if you have a religion, it's a good one. Because some people don't have any at all.

Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.

Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.

My father was very outwardly religious.

I think the world would be much poorer without religion, speaking generally.

Religion has a good place and it has its good people.

The first thing I do when I start my day is, I get down on my hands and knees and give thanks to God. Whenever I go outside of my house, the first thing I do is stop at the church.

I speak to God every day.

Prayer is the most concrete way to make our home in God.

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.